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Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Playstation 4

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sup Guys, Tech Doll’s here to tell you today that Sony is working on the
PlayStation 4,which it calls "Orbis," and plans to make public the gadget
in time for the holiday season in 2013.

The
console can reportedly play 3D games at 1080p resolution, as compared to the PS3's
720p. It apparently won't be backward-compatible with games for the PS3 and
will reportedly seek to block owners from playing used games.

Some
developers say they've already received development kits for the Orbis.

The
PlayStation 4's GPU will reportedly be able to display games written for the
console at a resolution of up to 4,096 by 2,160. That's four times higher
resolution than standard full HD. Screens with this level of resolution have
already been unveiled by several vendors, including Sharp, Panasonic and
Samsung.

PS4
users will reportedly be able to either download new games off the PlayStation
Network (PSN) or purchase them on Blu-Ray discs, much like with PS3.

Sony
will reportedly lock out used games on the PS4. Orbis owners who buy games on
Blu- Ray discs will in fact have to lock the discs to a single PSN account and
save the games to their hard drive, or hook them as "downloaded" in
their account history and download them later.

People
who purchase pre-owned Blu-Ray discs with PS4 games may be limited to a trial mode
or some other restriction of content and will have to pay to have the full game
unlocked or registered.

The
PS 4's reported lack of backward compatibility may also have been spurred by
other considerations. Game developers and publishers often consider used game
sales a threat to their bottom lines because they don't make money off the resale,
though they often have to continue providing server space to host the game.
Sony's move might win it some goodwill in the designer bionetwork.

Indeed,
Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 720 will also reportedly not be compatible with used games.

So
that leaves up with some good and some bad speculations from the house of Sony.
What will ideally happen is a question of time.

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